You Need to Read - August 30 — slackermama . com

This week’s list is pretty short and it’s peppered with political posts. Not that that’s a bad thing, though. There were some great political posts this week, after all. I imagine we’ll see more in the weeks and months ahead. In the meantime, I hope you like these posts. I did, after all.

What??! and I Hate Whatever Music You Like from Michael Ian Black. I’m probably going to alienate the first half of my readers with the first post here and the second half with the second post. Oh well. In the first post, MIB essentially rips apart McCain’s VP pick, but in a funny way of course. In the second post, he voices an opinion that I have quietly shared: people’s affection for music is boring. I will admit, if someone posts an entry all about their favorite obscure band, I’m pretty sure to just skip it. Maybe I’m just not that into music.
Thankful from glow in the woods. Here we have a post that voices something I’ve often thought, regarding my own loss. In the most awful of situations, there can always be something to be thankful for. I was thankful for quite a bit when Jackson was born, believe it or not. So I was intrigued to see that other mothers who have suffered loss have felt the same way.
Bring It, Biden from Surrender, Dorothy. Rita expresses a lot of the same feelings I have and have had about Joe Biden and the Democratic National Convention, Obama and even the election. I loved her point about voting for someone you “like” means you end up with George Bush. Excellent point!
O Time from Evolution of the Me. Yep, it’s another political post. But before you look away, this one is from someone who lives here in Reno and is a registered Republican. And they’re leaning towards voting for Obama. If that doesn’t give me hope, I don’t know what will.
DNC Favorite Moments: Beau Biden’s Introduction of Joe Biden from MOMocrats^TM. And, before we leave politics behind, I’ve got this one from Momocrats. It’s a video of Beau Biden’s speech (he’s Joe Biden’s son). The clipreel at the start and the speech itself were more than enough to drive me to tears. Wholly inspiring.
A Spoonful of Sugar from Fluent Brittish. I think I’m a lot like her, in the way that I tackle household chores (when I tackle them, that is). I should use some of her tactics here, I bet I might actually get something done oncein a while. I love the idea of setting forth little challenges to make an unpleasant chore seem more fun.
49 from a little pregnant. I’m so sad to hear that Julie’s (awesome) aunt didn’t get to finish her goal of visiting all 50 states. She sounded like one of those utterly wonderful people that few people are lucky enough to have in their life. I’m glad that Julie had her, but wish they’d been able to manage that Hawaii trip after all.

I hope everyone is enjoying their long weekend. Anyone have any special plans? Just shopping for us. The pantry is starting to look rather bare! You’ll have to excuse me if I make this brief, I need to get a shower so we can get going and get our shopping done. I, for one, don’t want to take all day (there’s lots of sitting around to be done, after all). So tell me, what’s on your plate? Anyone else doing the shopping thing like I am?

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